Improved horse-collar



g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICED IRA HOGHTLING, OF HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN.

IMPRovED HORSE-COLLAR.

Speeilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 76,456, dated April 7, 1868.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre' sponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in horse-collars; and it consists in forming the collar of india-rubber, wood, or

any other suitable material, with holes running throngh it from back to front in any direetion to make it. light and elastic.

When made ot' wood, a leather lining, A, is glued or otherwise secured tothe inside ot' the collar to protect the shoulders and breast ot thehorse, and holes a a, of any desired size, are bored through the body of the collar from front to back,as shown elearlyin the drawings."

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Constructing a horse-collar perforated and lined with leather, as described.

IRA HOUGHTLING. Witnesses:

T. L. GHADBOUENE,. lHoMAs M. BRADY. 

